Sentences with phrase «regional body ecowas»

It is intended that the Assembly shall be recognised as the peak Indigenous regional body and the primary point of Indigenous community coordination and input, while the Community Working Parties shall be the primary points of Indigenous contact at the community level.

Importantly, the new National Indigenous Representative Body will have to consider how to interface with this regional body in terms of ensuring Torres Strait Islander participation at the national level.

Election observers from regional body ASEAN expressed satisfaction at the process, however other international election monitors from the EU and the United States claimed that despite previously monitoring the 2008 poll, this time they were not invited to participate at all.

They underwent comprehensive assessments of physical activity patterns using a SenseWear armband, of metabolic health using internationally accepted criteria, regional body composition using magnetic resonance imaging and physical fitness testing.

The Acting President added that the Buhari administration was pleased that President Gnassingbe visited Nigeria almost immediately after his election to lead the regional body, assuring him that Nigeria will continue to play an active role in ECOWAS.

The Acting President expressed the hope that the spirit of ECOWAS, which is the spirit of brotherhood would be helpful in addressing some of the issues confronting the regional body.

Electoral observers from regional body ECOWAS, the African Union, the European Union and the United States will all oversee the process.

Zuma who is the chair of the regional body SADC said the body stands ready to assist in the political impasse currently gripping the country.

Gambian controversial president, Yahya Jammeh, has accused West African regional body, ECOWAS, of declaring war against his country for refusal to step down at the end of his mandate this month.

David Anderson: ECOWAS — West Africa's regional body — is considering an intervention, and increasingly Mali's neighbours are becoming concerned that the disorder will spill over the borders.

Such propaganda is banned on the federal level and we as a regional body are only imposing sanctions.»

IFOAM Organics Asia was established in June 2013 and is the only recognized regional body of IFOAM Organics International (www.

The CCA is a regional body that is part of the «one, worldwide ecumenical movement».

In a «conciliar fellowship» every national or regional body represented would be a unified and inclusive expression of the church «in each place.»

On Saturday, the Sandy Valley Conference of Free Will Baptists, the regional body of the denomination, released a statement saying the church policy was «Null and Void,» because the vote was not held in accordance with proper parliamentary procedure.

It is possible the process will highlight pre-existing tensions among the remaining EU members — between those states that believe in moving toward a more deeply integrated, federalist structure, and those largely opposed to further transfers of power from national to regional bodies, preferring to maintain the status quo — and in doing so hasten the move to a so - called «two - speed» EU.

Our excellent regional minister who acted as a catalyst and provided a link between business leaders, local and regional bodies and central government has also gone.

The third issue concerns devolving powers to some regional bodies.

Local disputes between regional bodies continued to weaken the confidence of Whitehall officials during this process.

NARPO also believe that a national pay body is more cost effective than regional bodies even if some element of regional pay is being considered.

«The Igbo from all over the country and in the Diaspora should be advised to converge in their region in the South - East for a plebiscite to be organized and conducted by the United Nations and other regional bodies for them to categorically to decide between remaining part of Nigeria or having their separate country.

Nancy Sutley, who chairs the task force and the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said at a press conference yesterday that all the regional bodies should have the planning process in place within 5 years.

The election was monitored by numerous international missions representing over 170 countries, and regional bodies such as the OAS and UNASUR supported the result, while encouraging a dialogue between the government and opposition to prevent any further post-election violence, which had claimed seven lives in the days following the contested poll.

In the last decade we have earned several awards from national or regional bodies for academic program quality, including the Christa McAuliffe Award for Excellence in Teacher Education given by the American Council for State Colleges and Universities.

The UNFCCC would benefit from collaboration with human rights bodies, including UN bodies, such as the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; the United Nations Human Rights Council; human rights treaty bodies, such as the Human Rights Committee and the Committee on the Rights of the Child; regional bodies, such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the African Commission on Human and People's Rights; and non-governmental organizations, such as Human Rights Watch and the International Red Cross.

Part of the International program, Erika's work focuses on climate change, at international negotiations and with U.N. Environment Programme and regional bodies like the Arctic Council to reduce emissions of atmospheric pollutants.

Other regional bodies are discussing similar issues, such as the Arab CIT Organization.

There was also support for the body to have a tiered structure (with community, regional, state, national level engagement), and also support for a streamlined national structure, regional bodies and for the national representative body to have membership on COAG and Ministerial Councils.

I believe that the federal government in particular has been passive on this issue — they have too easily sat back and thrust responsibility for getting regional bodies in place back to indigenous communities.

Standards such as those included in the Declaration should be embedded in all levels of our own internal governance — from our own families and community organisations, to our regional bodies, state and national peak bodies as well as the National Congress.

At this stage it seems that the primary role of all of the proposed regional bodies is to connect local and regional needs to all levels of government through advocacy.

Cultural Awareness - developing a program aimed at encouraging mutual understanding and improved relationships between Victorian Indigenous communities, NRE and NRE service providers (statutory authorities, regional bodies, and private providers) and community groups (Coastcare, Coast Action, Landcare, Bushcare, Farmsmart, etc).

While it may be advantageous in the initial stages for agreements to have the maximum flexibility by not being tied to legislative requirements, in the longer term there should be a more secure basis for the operation of regional bodies.

The Permanent Forum recommends that national human rights institutions and other relevant national and regional bodies, including the African Commission on Human and Peoples» Rights, promote the rights of indigenous peoples and monitor the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and ensure that the international standards on indigenous peoples» rights are translated into national laws.

Not exact matches

Authorities in the resort city of Cancun found two dismembered bodies stuffed in suitcases Friday and one suspected gunman was killed in a gunbattle on a downtown boulevard, just days ahead of a regional gathering that is to include top Latin American diplomats.

Thus it is not necessary to reconceive the relation of «soul» to body in terms of regional inclusion.

This clearly does not entail regional inclusion; so I am not claiming his support for my doctrine of the relation of the «soul» to the «body.»

Despite the practical resistance to the civil rights struggle on the part of numerous Protestant congregations, especially in the South, most national and regional church bodies were supportive of the extension of equal rights in this way.

The LCMS — national in scope, not regional as its name might suggest — today stands as the largest confessional Lutheran church body in North America, with just under 2.1 million members.

13 / In 1964 there were in the United States alone 1,434,645 radio stations operating within the standards, rules and allocations established by the International Te1ec ~ inunications Union and the various regional, functional and national regula ~ Jry bodies.

American Baptists believe that God's intention can be sought and followed in local congregations and other gatherings of Christians in associational, regional, national and world bodies as they receive from one another mutual counsel and correction [SCODS].

The largest bodies were Baptists (in several national or regional conventions, some of them Negro, for the majority of such Negroes as became Christians were Baptists), Methodists (in more than one ecclesiastical structure, some of them also Negro), the Disciples of Christ (of American origin), the Church of Latter Day Saints of Jesus Christ (Mormons, also sprung from the soil), Christian Scientists (likewise indigenous), and the Seventh Day Adventists (born in the United States).

The number of official ecumenical bodies has multiplied, so that a given church may be a member of the WCC, its own international confessional body, a regional confessional body, a regional council of churches, and a national council of churches.

Our member organizations also establish alliances based on regional priorities (Regional Bodies) and sector - specific priorities (Sector Platforms).

Last year, Neil Bremer, executive director of the museum, petitioned the other governing bodies to let the museum add nine new directorships to help raise funds and increase the museum's regional appeal.

Regional anesthetic — An epidural or spinal will cause a block to the lower regional of your body.

The audience for this Framework includes national policy - makers, programme managers, regional advisory bodies, public health authorities, Country Coordinating Mechanisms, United Nations staff, professional bodies, nongovernmental organizations and other interested stakeholders, including the community.

More tentatively, an elected body replacing the House of Lords could have the important function of serving as a single upper house for all these various national and regional assemblies.

A constitutional convention has at its heart an assembly of citizens charged with making proposals for the basic rules of the political system, e.g., the voting system or the creation of new national or regional law - making bodies.

The remaining 40 to 45 per cent of representatives for each body (the «additional members») are elected in large regional areas using a proportional representation system, so as to match every party's share of winning candidates to their votes share.